doivent
\dwav\
The verdict
“doivent” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #566. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #566
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de devoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doivent · doivent · French
doivent · rank #566 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #566
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH direction
Nearest frequency peer: direction (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « doivent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- états
états
99,438 corpus weight
- derrière
derrière
99,437 corpus weight
- direction
direction
99,436 corpus weight
- doivent
doivent
99,435 corpus weight
- emploi
emploi
99,434 corpus weight
- feu
feu
99,433 corpus weight
What this shows « doivent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doivent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dwav\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « doivent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around doivent (IPA \dwav\), averb. Corpus frequency is #566 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for doivent, with forms such as "ddoivent", "diovent", and "doievnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "donnent", "dorment", "doutent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is doivent, spelled D-O-I-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de devoir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de devoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doivent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sables sont les matières que l’on mélange le plus habituellement à la chaux pour former les mortiers ; ils doivent être rudes au toucher et crier quand on les serre dans la main.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoivent
- diovent
- doievnt
- doivennt
- doiventt
- doivetn
- doivnet
- doivvent
- dovient
- odivent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doivent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "doivent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).